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how small can the budget of a movie be if fucking vince vaughn appears in it?
the budget was 1.8 million which is really tiny for shooting in LA.
Vince probably shot for 5-6 days and did it as a favor for an elevated day rate
That’s not tiny for shooting in LA. That’s tiny for a studio feature, but not for an indie/super indie. Sure it’s under the $5M threshold for SAG, but it’s hardly a micro-budget. I assumed he shot it for like 300k because it certainly looks cheap. They shot in LA and in the 30 Mile Zone. Most budgets tend to get eaten up with above the line talent (director, writer, actors, etc) which this movie didn’t have. Paying Vince Vaughn his day rate was probably the only big cost run on the film and if it ran over 20-30 days, I’d be shocked.
To compare, Palm Springs cost $5M because it shot outside of LA which means you have to provide transportation, lodging, per diem, etc, plus it had name talent in it shooting a large percentage of the shooting schedule. That budget will go up when the distributor acquires it because Prints and Advertising runs (iirc) 50% of what the budget was on top of the budget, but that isn’t reported in public budget costs.